CHAP. VII. Inward Mortification and Perfect Resigna∣tion are necessary for obtaining Internal Peace.
60. THE most subtle Arrow that is shot at us from Nature, is, to induce us to that which is unlawful, with a pretence, that it may be necessary and useful. O how many Souls have suffer'd themselves to be lead away, and have lost the Spirit by this guilded Cheat! Thou wilt never last the delicious Manna [Quod nemo novit, nisi qui accipit, (Apoc. ch. 2.) unless thou dost perfectly overcome thy self even to die in thy self; because he who endeavours not to die to his Passions, is not well disposed to receive the Gift of Understanding, without the infusion whereof it is impossible for him to go in into himself and be changed in his Spirit; and therefore those that keep without have nothing of it.
52. Never disquiet thy self for any accident: for inquietude is the door by which the Ene∣my